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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Robin Edwards" data-source="post: 3326053" data-attributes="member: 17885">I have long held the view that RSPB and others should be campaigning more vigorously to get Woodcock, Snipe and Golden Plover removed from the list of birds that can be shot in UK.I know that shooting interests will claim that killing any number of birds is in the name of conservation but where it is clear is that populations are declining and not increasing whilst being shot.  So what is there to be lost?  Trial for 5 or 10 years and see if it makes a difference?I have a good friend who shoots and he rebuffs any figures presented to him from BTO Atlas data and confidently claims that Woodcock are abundant here in Bedfordshire - even in the breeding season where those who do BBS survey work struggle to find any breeding in the county at all.  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>